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Good evening, everyone. Welcome to all of you. After a long time, we are again holding a program in this beautiful city, the capital of Hungary—Budapest. It is a very beautiful, historical, and famous city. We have been coming here for more than thirty, thirty-five years. So, welcome to all of you from different parts of Hungary and neighboring countries. This weekend seminar is dedicated to our inner purification—the karmic purification that belongs to our sādhanā, which we call Brahmavidyā Kriyā. Karma is simply action. The difference is only in the words. Work is karma. Thinking is karma. Speaking is karma. Acting is karma. Reading is karma. Cooking and eating are karma. Washing yourself is also karma. It means kriyā. We should know how many kriyās happen through our body. Digesting food is also kriyā. The circulation of blood in the body is also kriyā. The function of the glands, ligaments, joints, muscles, and tissues are all kriyās in the body. All physical activities within our skin are called Kriyā. This kind of Kriyā, whether happening naturally or unnaturally, is all counted in our life. Any part of a machine, when used, gets old. Similarly, any part of the body, any kriyā or process in the body, also counts toward us becoming older; we are getting old. Speaking too much also uses a great deal of energy. The energy in our body is conjoined and limited. Our whole body is a kind of limited tank. As much water as we take out of the tank, it gets less. There is no source coming in. So, whether you use more or less depends on you. Gurujī used to give an example: to light one candle, we need one matchstick. Then, with that candle, we can light thousands of other candles. But if we use a matchstick for every single candle, the matchbox will be empty in no time. If there are thirty matchsticks and you use only one per day, they last a month. If you use five or ten, they last only three days. Similarly, the energy given by Mother Nature within the skin, which we possess, is limited. Of course, we support this energy through our nourishment—healthy, good nourishment. But that does not mean the process of aging will stop. It will not stop, but it will give you more energy so you are not exhausted or tired. This is just an example. Excessive speaking places a lot of tension on the brain. After a certain age, that brain will give up memory. Such talking can also cause severe headaches. Headaches have many causes: from the spine, from nerves, from tension, from circulation, and many things. But mostly, the headache you get is from tension in the brain and a slight insufficiency of energy supplied by the blood. Some people have severe headaches from time to time because they talk too much, they gush up too much, they think too much with nonsense thinking. This creates tension for the brain because you consume too much energy. It also affects our Maṇipūra Chakra, our solar plexus. These people definitely have digestive problems because you draw too much energy, putting too much stress on your navel center, the Maṇipūra Chakra. Furthermore, too much speaking harms and gives immense tension to our thyroid gland, because it is very close to the vocal cords—that is the Viśuddhi Chakra. God gave us a mouth to speak, but what to speak and how much to speak? These three things—brain tension, Maṇipūra Chakra tension, and thyroid gland tension—cause many, many diseases, psychic or physical. We should know what and how long we should speak. Some people talk the whole night, then sleep little, and in their dreams they are also talking. Then they do not get enough sleep and go to work still talking. We use this instrument too much, which will bring us very quickly to old age. So it depends on you. Do you want to become old? Old is gold, but you should hold your energy back. This was only about talking and thinking. Everyone has a particular point in the body where, unconsciously, we put pressure. It doesn't matter what kind of problem or situation exists. That pressure also creates disease. Therefore, we often practice ekāntavāsa—sometimes we go and perform sādhanā in a peaceful place. In the modern system, we call them holidays. You have one month of holidays in a year. And what do you do on holidays? Nowadays, holiday places are not for holidays anymore. They are full of tension, with so much pollution: sound pollution and eating pollution. You will find very few places with peaceful quiet, healthy food, and healthy air. That will not shorten our aging, but it will definitely give some release from the tensions in the body. This was only one example of what is happening in our body. Now, these two things—talking too much and constantly thinking negatively about problems—are crucial. God gave us the brain to think. God gave us the buddhi, the intellect. And God gave us the viveka, the discriminative intelligence. Those who have no viveka talk too much. Those who have viveka serve you with wise words. If you understand, you understand; that is all. Those who have real vivekā will not talk too much. I observe people, and how eagerly they jump to talk when there is an interval. Mostly, the expert talkers are my Croatian disciples. They can spend, with one cup of coffee, eighteen hours at one table. Someone said about Hungarians that when they discuss, they talk for one hour. You ask, "What did you speak about? What is the result?" They say, "No, we were only talking about whether we should speak or not." This is inner pollution, unnecessary inner pollution. Speak less, and you enjoy. To speak less is love. It is the wisdom that you are the wise one. The energy we use while talking destroys healthy cells in the body. Please do not be angry, but in India we say, "Who talks too much has a dog's brain, all the time: woof, woof, woof." This does not mean we are unfriendly to others. We should speak, we should explain, and we shall communicate. We should be friendly with everyone. But talking so much, sitting and talking about nothing, is a loss of time. In English or in your language, you say it is a loss of time; you are not aware of time. But in India we say it is a sin. It is a sin to lose time. That is called samayakā apamāna—you are humiliating time. That same time, if you could meditate, think wisely, or read something, would make you more relaxed and calm. That is also karma, and too much talking and thinking is also karma. But some karma releases tensions, and some creates tension. Too much talking not only harms you but also the other person, the poor one sitting beside you who has to listen all the time. And it does not stop there. It goes further: it creates misunderstanding in others, it creates tension in others, and many, many things. So in this seminar, we shall practice something and learn something about karmic purification. It is about looking within yourself. There is a beautiful mirror; look in that mirror at your face. "Mukhada dek prani darpan me"—it is said, "O creature, O human, look at your face in the mirror." See how many puṇyas (meritorious deeds) you have done, how many pāpas (sins) you have done, how many pure things you did, and how many sins. Sin can be committed through words, through thinking, through behavior. Giving a wrong promise, which gives disappointment. Harming others—we think we are correct and good, but the result will come. That result will come more to the one who thinks and does many negative things. So, karma comes from the word kriyā. Kriyā means something is functioning, happening. The entire universe is working. Many stars are manifesting, and many stars disappear. Many suns come and disappear. All the planets and everything are moving. They are Kriyā. Air is Kriyā, water is Kriyā. And we have to be very careful with air, water, and fire. Of course, all five elements are very important, but the mighty are three: water, air, and fire. Be careful; you cannot master the strength of these three. It is said: "Rājā, Yogī, Agni, Jal, Jis kī Ulṭī Rīt, Daratā Rahio, Pārśu Rāmjī, Thoṛī Dekhe, Prīt." The king, the yogī, fire, and water. Their way is very different, very peculiar. Parashurāmjī himself said—Parashurām was an incarnation—he said, "Be cautious towards these four." Do not take them lightly. If you have a friend who is a king, you never know when he will kick you out. You cannot say anything. And a yogī, a sādhu or yogī, be careful, because you never know when he might curse you or cast a slightly negative look upon you. It is said in India: if God makes a mistake, the Gurudev can correct it, or a saint can correct it. But if the sādhu makes a mistake, even God cannot correct it. That much freedom is given to the holy saints. There is one story I have told many times, about our Satguru Dev, Devpurījī. Many of you have been to Kailash Ashram. You saw the small villages on the left and right. One village is not even one kilometer away. There was one family, business people. In the ancient system, every group or family dynasty had particular work. Mahāprabhujī said that through their karma, their work, you identify which caste or family they belong to. At that time, and still, that is functioning. It does not mean lower caste or higher caste, no. If you have a goldsmith, then this family is called the goldsmith family. They have this talent, generation to generation. Or you have a blacksmith; generation to generation, they work with iron. Or you make ceramic things; it is a tradition in families. Similarly, there is a farmer, there are business people. They all know, and they have a beautiful life and harmonious community. We learn a profession now in university or college. Many people learn a profession but still cannot understand it because this talent is not in their blood. Look to your ancestors, what they were doing. If you choose such a subject, you will pass very quickly and be perfect. There was one family, builders, and they were very good people. All are very good. Who is not good? Ourselves. If you see bad in others, first you have to think bad, and then the other is bad. So first you pollute yourself, and then you pollute others. By thinking, you have already done it. You take this karma upon yourself. You throw only the garbage on others, but a thousand times that garbage will come back to you again. That is it. So who are we to think badly about others and judge others? We are on the way to purify our karmic pollution. There was a couple getting old who did not have children. You know, here in Hungary and in Europe, people also do this: they go to an astrologer. "Please, can you look at my horoscope to see if I will have a son or a daughter, or how many children?" If a horoscope could give you a child, then I could make you many horoscopes. It is not like that. Psychologically, it gives you contentment. Jyotiṣa, astrology, is known as the third eye of God. It can see clearly, but you have to be very precise. Nowadays, many are intellectual, looking too much only in books and computers to make your horoscope. Now everyone can have it on the computer: you just pay, press the button with your birthday, time, and location, and the paper comes out. In Jaipur, there is a very well-known shop where you can get your horoscope through a computer—very precise. About twenty years ago, I went there with people. He printed all my data and my horoscope. One person from Vienna also gave all her data; she was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, with her parents. Her data was exactly like mine, each and everything. So I said, "Now you should be a sannyāsī." So that is a fixed thing. Like, luckily, you will be in the lotto—what they call it. "Toto" in our Hindi language means deaf; you lost it. You did not gain; you lost. So astrology is correct, but rare are those who have done such sādhanā. The astrologer's words have that power that what he says will be exactly right, truth without looking in books. But they will not tell that he or she is perfect, no. Inwardly, their behavior is so humble, so simple. The wiser you are, the humbler you become. The more foolish you are, the more pride grows—like when the ocean is calmer with no waves. Then comes palmistry, reading your hand lines, foot lines, forehead lines. Face reading, hand reading, foot reading—enough. They also have different meanings, but they are changing every minute, every second. And every ten years, life changes completely. So it is like that. This couple asked many astrologers. They asked many tantrics and many people—I do not want to tell the names. They said, "Yes, I see in your past life you were the perfect disciple of Mahāprabhujī." And, "Yes, I see you, girl, you were in a past life a holy Mīrā." No one said you were the devil last time. So it is good to be just a yes-man. "Yes, thank you." Ask them, "Can you change it? If you can change, what will happen to me? Is there any way to change?" Yes and no. There are some sādhanās, there are some mantras, okay. Good. But again, psychologically, you feel a little secure. But destiny, we cannot change. Only great saints can change it. Their blessing can change it. They asked many, but everyone always said, "Well, it is not possible for you to have children." They went to modern medicine, consulted with doctors, who gave reasons why they could not have a child. While some people want children, and some, if yes, yes, and there is none—all children are our children. If you do not have children, support your neighbor's children. Give money to the neighbor's children for studying. Support them like your own child. And write your house in the neighbor's children's name? No. As you know, it is written in Līlā Amṛt: Devapurījī went for bhikṣā. That lady was making chapatis for breakfast, cooking for her husband and herself. Devapurījī called out, "One chapati, one son; two chapatis, two sons; three chapatis, three sons." She had five chapatis; she took all of them and gave them to Devapurījī. He said, "Bless you, you will get five sons." She was happy because everyone trusted Devpurījī very much. Everyone was very careful. Devpurījī was not like your Swamiji. Swamiji says, "Okay." In his case, no. One word you did not follow, and you are out. Out means go back to the 8.4 million circle, and you play football, and the football goes out. Now it is out. That is it. So they got the children. Through this, we can trust that although destiny or God did not give them children in their life, the saint, like Devpurījī, said it and it happened. That is called a guruvākya. That is called the blessing. How many times do we change our words, and how much do we talk? So our words have no power; our vākyās are compromised. Again, name, again, okay. You, you, so, so, all right. Yes, no, we are not sure. But such a great saint, a holy saint like Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī—they had tapasyā, they purified their inner life. So their words come true, and our words are just talking, that is all. Therefore, inner purification is very, very important. We shall talk more about this, think about this. This was only about speaking, but look more and more into the mirror, the inner mirror, with closed eyes. Through meditation, you know what you are saying, you know what you are thinking, you know how you are feeling, and you know what you want to tell someone with this. Very well, you know, and you know how others receive your thoughts. That is it. If they are sent with love, then these thoughts will melt as they go to others. Otherwise, they are like a bullet and will hurt a lot. So, karmic purification. Of course, in many things, astrology is good. If you have knowledge about the planets, exact time, and constellations, there is always some kind of difference. European astrology is based on the sun, and Eastern or Indian astrology is based on the moon. The moon is very precise, and the moon changes every second. So the exact time you are born is important. Our first birth was when we were descending from the astral world to this physical world—through the water, the heat, and onto the earth. Developing as seeds, the soul develops like the seeds of grass, trees, or grains like wheat or corn. In those seeds, there is the soul. You do not know who will eat these seeds or if they will be destroyed. So it is not sure that when we come from the astral world, descending to the physical world, this is our first breath. Then it comes to the body of creatures—so which kind of creature? Then it goes to the form, to the mother and father, and then we get that. There is a karmic destiny hidden in that particular tiny seed. You do not know how many times it is eaten, digested, and gone—again recycling, again recycling. So lucky we are that suddenly we got into that minute in the mother's body. That was the second breath, our birth. And the third birth is when your mother gave you birth. So which time is correct? When descending from the astral world to the physical world, and coming again into that form, into that body that will give birth in which form? There is a resonance with that soul, a resonance that has all the data, all the information. That we call destiny, that we call karmic destiny. It is a very interesting thing. So the moon calculation is very correct in astrology. The rest tomorrow. I wish you all the best and many blessings. Digest what I have told you. I will see who is talking the whole night and who is only talking what is needed. Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Kṛṣṇa Devatā Mahādeva, Kṛṣṇa, Mātā Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Kṛṣṇa. Tomorrow's webcast will begin at 10 o'clock. The other programs, as usual, start at 10 o'clock.